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Postby robbiestoupe » Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:26 pm

re: horn honking, it's interesting to travel abroad and experience how it's done elsewhere. China, Thailand and Brazil are all places I've been to where the horn is used more as a preventative measure rather than a corrective measure. For instance, drivers are more likely to tap their horn when changing lanes than use a turn signal. Perhaps it's more prevalent in places where motorcycles are a higher percentage of vehicles on the road?

Of course, this leads to much higher noise pollution, but an interesting phenomenon nonetheless.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Jan 15, 2021 3:32 pm

I haven't hate-honked in a long time.

"Hate-honked "lol

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:09 pm

I think I drove fewer than 750 miles in 2020.

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:20 pm

It’s after 5pm on a Friday before a holiday weekend where early dismissal was 2pm and my wife is still on bullshit conference calls about stuff that isn’t time sensitive (her words).

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Postby King Colby » Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:39 pm

I eliminated the "**** you" honk from my repertoire a few years ago. Decided it wasn't worth some maniac shooting at my car or something which is a weird fear of mine. Now I only honk if I'm about to get hit

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:33 pm

I still can't believe how many people I see with a phone up to their ear, in cars that I know have bluetooth. If you absolutely have to take a call, this should be the only option. Dinguses.
This. Pair the damn phone.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:36 pm

For whatever reason I cannot carry on a conversation via bluetooth in a car.

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Postby NTP66 » Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:37 am

WE FOUND ONE

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:52 am

Not as bad as the fcksticks that wear earbuds while driving

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Postby meow » Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:22 am

I saw a guy driving an original RAV4 with huge beats on his ears. That boy ain’t right

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Postby the wicked child » Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:31 am

Had a casserole dish fail spectacularly in the oven last night. Have a nice mix of green beans, burnt cream/cheese, and glass to deal with now.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:03 am

I saw a guy driving an original RAV4 with huge beats on his ears. That boy ain’t right
I'm not sure there is a better picture of Gastonia than that.

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Postby meow » Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:14 am

I saw a guy driving an original RAV4 with huge beats on his ears. That boy ain’t right
I'm not sure there is a better picture of Gastonia than that.
This was actually down on 49 near Lake Wylie. You are right though. He probably lives in Gastonia.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:34 am

That 274 back road is like a secret passageway.

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Postby meow » Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:58 am

It really is. I use that all the time. If I need the Pineville/Steele Creek area and there is a hint of traffic of 85/485, I use 274. I don’t like driving it at night, though.

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Postby blackjack68 » Mon Jan 18, 2021 11:16 am

Had a casserole dish fail spectacularly in the oven last night. Have a nice mix of green beans, burnt cream/cheese, and glass to deal with now.
Well that’s a mess.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Mon Jan 18, 2021 1:11 pm

Had a casserole dish fail spectacularly in the oven last night. Have a nice mix of green beans, burnt cream/cheese, and glass to deal with now.
Well that’s a mess.
Was something frozen? Or an old hand grenade from a potato field mixed into the casserole?

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Postby the wicked child » Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:15 pm

Had a casserole dish fail spectacularly in the oven last night. Have a nice mix of green beans, burnt cream/cheese, and glass to deal with now.
Well that’s a mess.
Was something frozen? Or an old hand grenade from a potato field mixed into the casserole?
Nah, was fresh green beans. Only thing I can think of is that I'd never used that dish at 450 before and apparently it couldn't handle it.

The mess has been dealt with but what a disaster.

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Postby King Colby » Mon Jan 18, 2021 5:10 pm

Could have had a crack or something that you didn't see. I had these "microwave safe" dishes that blew up one after the other if we heated something like mashed potatoes on them. Turns out the microwave sameness goes away once they're even a little bit damaged

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Postby shoeshine boy » Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:09 am

when the AT&T guy is seen working at our neighborhood interwebs box at 3:00 on a Saturday and by 5:00 we have no interwebs. called AT&T. they said the soonest they can have a tech out to look at why we (and only we) don't have internet is Tuesday. total First World Problem but still, really??

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Postby willeyeam » Tue Jan 19, 2021 9:11 am

that happened once when i was in high school. we had time warner - guy was out fixing something at our house, and the internet went out. we called time warner as the guy was driving up the street and they were like earliest we can get someone there is 3 days. while this guy was still literally driving on our street. so we went to directv/verizon internet 5 minutes later

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Wed Jan 20, 2021 11:58 am

This lady in front of me at the ATM is doing all her banking at this Speedway.

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Postby meow » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:06 am

Is anyone truly happy with the way their spouse loads/unloads the dishwasher? Probably not, no?

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Postby NTP66 » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:14 am

Is anyone truly happy with the way their spouse loads/unloads the dishwasher? Probably not, no?
No issues here...

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Postby nocera » Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:16 am

If it means I don't have to do it, I have no issues. Hell, she could do something nutty like put the cups on the bottom rack for all I care.

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